<p>The crash that cost Formula 1 team Marussia test driver Maria de Villota her right eye has changed her attitude to life, reveals the Spaniard.<br /><br /></p>.<p>The accident occurred during testing at Duxford airfield in Britain in July when de Villota’s car collided with a team support truck. The 32-year-old driver was left with severe head and facial injuries, with doctors unable to save her eye.<br /><br />De Villota said that accident had prompted a broader outlook on life.<br /><br />“Now I have only one eye, maybe I perceive more things than before and now I see you have to stop and measure things in a different way,” de Villota said Wednesday.<br />“Now it’s not about the tenths on the clock but about little moments.”<br /><br />De Villota said she was still weighing up getting behind the wheel again — of any car.<br />“I still don’t know. It’s about the license. There are drivers in the United States who have lost an eye and still have a license.”<br /><br />She admitted to being shocked at the first glance in the mirror after multiple surgeries.<br />“The first day I looked at myself in the mirror, I had 140 black stitches on my face, and they looked like they had been stitched with rope,” she said.<br /><br />“I had lost my right eye. I was terrified,” said de Villota, who uses a black eye patch.<br />She also described other physical consequences of the crash that she fears might dog her for years.<br /><br />“I have headaches that they don’t know how long will last — maybe years. I have also lost (some) smell, and taste, which is linked to smell.”<br /></p>
<p>The crash that cost Formula 1 team Marussia test driver Maria de Villota her right eye has changed her attitude to life, reveals the Spaniard.<br /><br /></p>.<p>The accident occurred during testing at Duxford airfield in Britain in July when de Villota’s car collided with a team support truck. The 32-year-old driver was left with severe head and facial injuries, with doctors unable to save her eye.<br /><br />De Villota said that accident had prompted a broader outlook on life.<br /><br />“Now I have only one eye, maybe I perceive more things than before and now I see you have to stop and measure things in a different way,” de Villota said Wednesday.<br />“Now it’s not about the tenths on the clock but about little moments.”<br /><br />De Villota said she was still weighing up getting behind the wheel again — of any car.<br />“I still don’t know. It’s about the license. There are drivers in the United States who have lost an eye and still have a license.”<br /><br />She admitted to being shocked at the first glance in the mirror after multiple surgeries.<br />“The first day I looked at myself in the mirror, I had 140 black stitches on my face, and they looked like they had been stitched with rope,” she said.<br /><br />“I had lost my right eye. I was terrified,” said de Villota, who uses a black eye patch.<br />She also described other physical consequences of the crash that she fears might dog her for years.<br /><br />“I have headaches that they don’t know how long will last — maybe years. I have also lost (some) smell, and taste, which is linked to smell.”<br /></p>